[Official] DiRT 2

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Looks like DiRT 2 is gonna win my "Biggest Disappointment Award" this year. I just played the PS3 demo and it is just all wrong now. It's pretty much Need for Speed ProStreet on dirt. 99% of the cars, you wouldn't use in a rally, the steering in most of the cars are too light. It plays like one of GRID's drift events.

I'll try the 360 demo tomorrow, as my 360 should finally be back from repair, but I'm 99% likely to cancel my pre-order at the moment, even though I'd only be paying ?25 for it.

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World Rally Championship Game

The World Rally Championship is ready for you

The World Rally Championship is working on breakthrough gaming technology which would allow rally fans to compete for their own world title on real-time events from the comfort of their own homes.

Chairman of International Sportsworld Communicators - the global promoter of the WRC - Neil Duncanson has confirmed that live gaming is the one of the next major steps in the development of the series.

He said: “Unlike any other major sport, the WRC is absolutely built for live gaming. That’s the ability for you or I to sit at home our sofas and drive in a rally in real time on your computer.”

ISC is exploring the technology to allow on-line gamers to start the same rally at the same time as the actual competitors in the World Rally Championship. Through ongoing virtual computer developments allied to ISC’s own ground-breaking on-stage mapping technology, the dreams of rally fans across the world will soon be realised. And they could even be recognised at the highest level.

Duncanson adds: “When I explained this plan to [FIA president] Max Mosley, he was very taken with the idea. And he has offered me the opportunity, when we get this up and running, to award a trophy to the winner of the on-line World Rally Championship at the same time that we are handing out the actual silverware to the world champions at the FIA’s awards evening in Monte Carlo.

“This is the next level up. It’s what computer gaming people are looking for. We’ve done computer game simulation and we’ve done simulation XR3i and now they’re all looking for the next step. That step is reality and actually being part of a real event. You can’t do that in Formula 1, you can’t do that in football, but you can do it in world rally. When Rally Australia starts in couple of weeks, people could be sat at home preparing themselves to start that event - we’re not very far off that. We’ve been talking to some of the major computer game companies and the technology is there to enable us to do it now. It’s just a question of getting what are fairly hefty development costs underwritten by one of these guys and then we’re away.”

http://www.wrc.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=101&a...ady%20for%20you

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demo was ok. The Point to Point challenge ala Dorifto ala rally event was pure crap. The steering.. omg.. it' just isn't for me.. especially me coming from drifting Forza 2. Although the dirt race event was fun actually. seeing everyone spinning out, crashing into each other.. (for some reason everyone was trying to take me out :s.. lol..). vehicles flying in the air doing rolls.. and dodging them.. was really fun.

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what a let down... can't see a great amount of improvement over the first dirt in terms of graphics, and handling is actually worse!

i just need a proper rally game i think... this is too showbiz.

My thoughts exactly. I really wish DICE would do another RalliSport Challenge.

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Well it's kinda ironic that this demo just turned up the day after I've been playing through Richard Burns Rally again!

I don't think I need to go into how different this is... I'm just kind of disappointed with the handling, rumours left me thinking they may have made improvements in this area. Sure, it's different, I'm not quite sure it's the right kind of different :s

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what a let down... can't see a great amount of improvement over the first dirt in terms of graphics, and handling is actually worse!

Are you serious? I only got to play one race so far and I definitely noticed a vast improvement in the graphics especially the environment.

Handling is definitely something that will take some getting used to, but I just don't know if I will like it more or less than the original's handling.

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san.W10

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People critisized the original's handling which they said that was also too arcade like. Do people want GT handling or what?

people want a decent handling rally game.

a game which is technical, in which you need to do some 'work' to power slide, jump, do scandinavin flick...

dirt is taking previous nfs games as its inspiration.

imo, with handling soo arcady, all those advanced car setup are useless

so far from videos, it seems dirt 2 cars are 'overly' tail happy. :p

to top it all, two 'pro racers' gave massive input in games' 'car handling' section.

one important question-

is there any tyre degradation in dirt2?

btw, original dirt was a joke.

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Played a couple more races and got the handling done a bit more. I can't remember if the original Dirt's handling seemed this touchy but either way I am getting used to it. On the non Baja race around that first huge turn (maybe a minute in) I drifted down the whole thing which felt really cool. Whether or not I can repeat that easily we'll see, but it was still pretty fun.

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